[OpenWrt-Devel] Review and cleanup of base packages

[Petr Štetiar]

Hi,

one of the topics discussed during recent Hamburg meeting was "Review base
packages"[1], where we simply talked about:

 * lack of formal definition for a base package
 * transfer of base packages which don't fit formal definition into feeds

So, how can we define which package should be included in the base/master
tree? (Any idea where to put this on the wiki?)

 * package is needed by device in order to
   - build the image and flashing tools
   - boot device into usable state
 * package is convenient for development (gdb, perf, strace, valgrind etc.)
   - couldn't one just symlink/install those packages from feeds?
 * it's convenient for testing (ct-bugcheck, fbtest, spidev_test, iperf3 etc.)
   - couldn't one just symlink/install those packages from feeds?
 * package is needed for automatic testing
   - couldn't one just symlink/install those packages from feeds?
 * it's not possible to build the package and/or tooling out of the tree

For the initial discussion, I've simply created a list of packages which are
not used by any target, so probably possible candidates for transfer into the
feeds:

 boot/kexec-tools
 devel/gdb
 devel/perf
 devel/strace
 devel/trace-cmd
 devel/valgrind
 firmware/am33x-cm3
 firmware/amd64-microcode
 kernel/avila-wdt
 kernel/gpio-nct5104d
 kernel/leds-apu2/src
 kernel/rtc-rv5c386a
 kernel/rtl8812au-ct
 kernel/trelay
 kernel/w1-gpio-custom
 libs/libbsd                       (lldpd)
 libs/libconfig
 libs/libevent2                    (lldpd)
 libs/libnetfilter-cthelper
 libs/libnetfilter-cttimeout
 libs/libnetfilter-log
 libs/libnetfilter-queue
 libs/libroxml
 libs/libusb-compat
 libs/nghttp2                      (curl)
 libs/popt
 network/config/ltq-vdsl-app
 network/config/qos-scripts
 network/config/vti
 network/config/vxlan
 network/config/xfrm
 network/ipv6/464xlat
 network/ipv6/6in4
 network/ipv6/6rd
 network/ipv6/6to4
 network/ipv6/ds-lite
 network/ipv6/map
 network/ipv6/thc-ipv6
 network/services/igmpproxy
 network/services/ipset-dns
 network/services/lldpd
 network/services/omcproxy
 network/services/openvpn-easy-rsa
 network/services/openvpn
 network/services/relayd
 network/services/samba36
 network/services/umdns
 network/services/wireguard
 network/utils/curl
 network/utils/dante
 network/utils/iftop
 network/utils/iperf3
 network/utils/iperf
 network/utils/iproute2
 network/utils/ipset
 network/utils/iputils
 network/utils/iwcap
 network/utils/owipcalc
 network/utils/tcpdump
 network/utils/umbim
 network/utils/wpan-tools
 system/rpcd
 system/zram-swap
 utils/ct-bugcheck
 utils/fbtest
 utils/fritz-tools
 utils/fuse
 utils/lua5.3
 utils/px5g
 utils/spidev_test
 utils/ugps
 utils/usbmode
 utils/usbreset
 utils/usbutils
 utils/xfsprogs

1. https://openwrt.org/meetings/hamburg2019/start#review_base_packages

-- ynezz

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